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At present we observe a decreasing role for the state in many areas
where it used to be prominent. Amidst severe budgetary cuts, the
state and its organs are confronted with ever louder calls for
efficiency in public office (value for money') and public
performance. Simultaneously we see in many democratic welfare
states the rise of new institutional forms and social organizations
responding to new public priorities. Phenomena like privatization
and de-regulation, new forms of regulation and self-regulation, and
the rise of special issue groups are an expression of this. This
book seeks to provide order in some of today's issues and to offer
analysis and explanation for selected topics. The book opens with
contributions on the importance of concepts of present-day
institutional economics interpreting modern governmental behavior
and organization. Subsequent chapters deal with new developments in
various fields such as environmental management and conservation,
political legitimacy, or the new roles for covenants. Audience:
This volume will be of interest for scholars in the fields of
public service, government studies and adjacent branches of
economics, political science and law.
Inter and Intra Governmental Arrangements for Productivity - An
Agency Approach focuses on public productivity. It addresses long
standing and current questions on government productivity. Its
scope and coverage range from theory to very specific applications.
First of all it demonstrates the applicability of a theoretical
framework to concrete issues in the public sector: the Principal
Agent (PA) theory or the Agency theory. Secondly, it demonstrates
the different perspectives of this theoretical framework as seen by
researchers and practitioners from various countries. The volume is
based upon the revised seminar papers from a conference that was
held at the University of Twente. Two trends obvious in this world
are its increasing global character and the need for increasingly
efficient and effective organizations. Inter and intra governmental
organizations need to learn to effectively and efficiently work
together in complex web like relationships. This study forms a
major step in that direction. It consolidates several current
economic concepts that are highly visible and specifically applies
them to various levels and functions of government. It emphasizes
that PA theory is a powerful conceptual framework because of the
economic focus on transactions between principals and agents. The
issues of information asymmetry, across government constituents,
political/diplomatic considerations, and the narrow focus of PA
problems will be described. Attention is also given to the issues
of citizen demands, internal markets, franchising, competitive
procurement and contracting in'. The study concentrates on academic
thinking about the applicability of PA concepts to administrative
theory building. As such it makes a current, valid contribution to
the knowledge and practice of public administration world-wide.
CARlA BODO Board Member of the Cultural Information and Research
Centres liaison in Europe (CIRCLE) and Director of the Observatory
for the Performing Arts at the Department of the Performing Arts of
the Italian Prime Minister's Office, Roma The relation between the
public and the private sector in the field of culture, the central
theme of this publication, was thoroughly debated during the 1997
CIRCLE Round Table in Amsterdam. It was not the first time CIRCLE
addressed this issue. In 1988 CIRCLE'S Bureau was invited to
participate in a seminar in Budapest on The State, the Market and
Culture. I will never forget the emotional impact of Sacha
Rubinstein's demonization of state sup port and his apotheosis of
the role of the market in the cultural field in Russia. So, in ad
vance of actual events, we suddenly had a premonition of what was
going to happen, ofthe turmoil which was about to radically change
the socio-political scene of Central and East ern Europe. Six years
later, in 1994, we met again in Budapest for a Conference on The
Distribu tion of Roles between Government and Arts Councils,
Associations and Foundations."
CARlA BODO Board Member of the Cultural Information and Research
Centres liaison in Europe (CIRCLE) and Director of the Observatory
for the Performing Arts at the Department of the Performing Arts of
the Italian Prime Minister's Office, Roma The relation between the
public and the private sector in the field of culture, the central
theme of this publication, was thoroughly debated during the 1997
CIRCLE Round Table in Amsterdam. It was not the first time CIRCLE
addressed this issue. In 1988 CIRCLE'S Bureau was invited to
participate in a seminar in Budapest on The State, the Market and
Culture. I will never forget the emotional impact of Sacha
Rubinstein's demonization of state sup port and his apotheosis of
the role of the market in the cultural field in Russia. So, in ad
vance of actual events, we suddenly had a premonition of what was
going to happen, ofthe turmoil which was about to radically change
the socio-political scene of Central and East ern Europe. Six years
later, in 1994, we met again in Budapest for a Conference on The
Distribu tion of Roles between Government and Arts Councils,
Associations and Foundations."
Inter and Intra Governmental Arrangements for Productivity - An
Agency Approach focuses on public productivity. It addresses long
standing and current questions on government productivity. Its
scope and coverage range from theory to very specific applications.
First of all it demonstrates the applicability of a theoretical
framework to concrete issues in the public sector: the Principal
Agent (PA) theory or the Agency theory. Secondly, it demonstrates
the different perspectives of this theoretical framework as seen by
researchers and practitioners from various countries. The volume is
based upon the revised seminar papers from a conference that was
held at the University of Twente. Two trends obvious in this world
are its increasing global character and the need for increasingly
efficient and effective organizations. Inter and intra governmental
organizations need to learn to effectively and efficiently work
together in complex web like relationships. This study forms a
major step in that direction. It consolidates several current
economic concepts that are highly visible and specifically applies
them to various levels and functions of government. It emphasizes
that PA theory is a powerful conceptual framework because of the
economic focus on transactions between principals and agents. The
issues of information asymmetry, across government constituents,
political/diplomatic considerations, and the narrow focus of PA
problems will be described. Attention is also given to the issues
of citizen demands, internal markets, franchising, competitive
procurement and contracting in'. The study concentrates on academic
thinking about the applicability of PA concepts to administrative
theory building. As such it makes a current, valid contribution to
the knowledge and practice of public administration world-wide.
At present we observe a decreasing role for the state in many areas
where it used to be prominent. Amidst severe budgetary cuts, the
state and its organs are confronted with ever louder calls for
efficiency in public office (value for money') and public
performance. Simultaneously we see in many democratic welfare
states the rise of new institutional forms and social organizations
responding to new public priorities. Phenomena like privatization
and de-regulation, new forms of regulation and self-regulation, and
the rise of special issue groups are an expression of this. This
book seeks to provide order in some of today's issues and to offer
analysis and explanation for selected topics. The book opens with
contributions on the importance of concepts of present-day
institutional economics interpreting modern governmental behavior
and organization. Subsequent chapters deal with new developments in
various fields such as environmental management and conservation,
political legitimacy, or the new roles for covenants. Audience:
This volume will be of interest for scholars in the fields of
public service, government studies and adjacent branches of
economics, political science and law.
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